Learn how to investigate feedstock quality, fingerprint recycled thermoplastic resins and streamline your process using thermal analysis and rheology

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The plastic industry is shifting toward greater sustainability with growing adoption of post-consumer recycled material (PCR). However, PCR feedstock presents new challenges – such as being inherently variable and prone to contamination.

In this hour-long webinar, industry experts explore viable solutions, including fingerprinting recycled resin feedstock by measuring polymer properties like crystallinity, viscosity and processing temperature. These measurements reveal batch-to-batch variations and offer insights for optimizing processing and consistency. 

Watch the free webinar to learn how to measure fundamental material properties and apply the data to enhance manufacturing and product quality. 

Portrait photo of Els Verdonck, Senior applications scientist at TA Instruments

Speaker: Els Verdonck

Els Verdonck is a senior applications scientist with TA Instruments, based in Belgium. She received her degree in chemical engineering and her PhD from Brussels University (VUB) in Belgium, where she specialised in polymer characterisation. Her research was focused on studying interphasial effects in composites and investigating thermoset cure kinetics.

Verdonck joined TA Instruments in 1998,  providing application support and training to customers as well as organising material characterisation seminars.

 

Portrait photo of Terri Chen, Principal applications engineer at TA Instruments

Speaker: Terri Chen

Terri Chen is a principal applications engineer at TA Instruments, supporting rheology and DMA. Chen received her PhD in polymer science and material engineering from Sun Yat-sen university in China, specialising in polymer synthesis and characterisation. She then moved to the university of Maryland, US, where she was first a postdoc researcher and later a research assistant professor in biopolymer modification and analysis.

Chen joined TA Instruments in 2004, providing customers with support, consultation and training. She has more than 50 publications in peer reviewed journals and possesses two US patents.

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TA Instruments is a division of Waters Corporation.

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